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A six foot two present from the Easter Bunny!!!

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A six foot two present from the Easter Bunny!!!
Posted by RRCharlie on Tuesday, April 6, 2010 6:47 PM

Saturday night Fed Ex and the Easter Bunny left a 6 foot present on my front deck.

 

The shipping label from TWX

 The whole box!

It almost took an act of Congress to get the box open.

 

 The four pieces of a bridge facade for the dining room

 

 The four pieces glued together

 

Close up of the end of the facade

 The edge of the upper level before I painted it black so the details of the facade would stand out

 The edge painted black and ready for installation of the facade

 

 The facade in place

This was what gave me the inspiration

This is the result of looking at the product as advertised by The Trainworx Store. I called Texas and talked to one of their design engineers and described what I wanted. I ordered this facade which was an inch shy of six feet and ordered one about three feet long for my train room. I had no room for the actual bridge in either place but the worked with me and you see the result of the first facade. The other will be in the box for a while until I can get the train room restored to operating condition.

Comments would be appreciated!!!

Mel Hazen; Jax, FL Ride Amtrak. It's the only way to fly!!!

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 6, 2010 7:16 PM

Very, Very impressive.

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Posted by Ole Timer on Tuesday, April 6, 2010 7:24 PM

Totally agree Brent and it's unusually great looking and unique ! Thumbs Up

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Posted by Sturgeon-Phish on Tuesday, April 6, 2010 8:37 PM

That is COOL!  Do they offer an American Flyer version?

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Posted by RRCharlie on Tuesday, April 6, 2010 9:02 PM

I found this on a link from the Lionel Web site. You might try writing to Aaron Fox at twtrainworx.com  and asking about an American Flyer Version

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Posted by dwiemer on Tuesday, April 6, 2010 9:05 PM

Mel, congratulations on some fine pieces to your railroad empire.  Looks great.

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Posted by richhotrain on Tuesday, April 6, 2010 9:39 PM

Very, very nice, Charlie, but for your information, it is totally misspelled.

It should be spelled  A-M-E-R-I-C-A-N   F-L-Y-E-R

 

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Posted by Brutus on Tuesday, April 6, 2010 10:13 PM

I love it!  Excellent and thanks for sharing too!  Your setup looks like a lot of fun too :)

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Posted by 8ntruck on Tuesday, April 6, 2010 10:19 PM

Neat piece.  Adds a nice touch to your layout.

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Posted by Buckeye Riveter on Wednesday, April 7, 2010 8:15 PM

I would rip my bridges out to have something like that.  Very cool!!

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Posted by anjdevil2 on Wednesday, April 7, 2010 8:44 PM

 Very Nice, Mel...and you're still shopping at TrainWorx!

That is an awesome addition to the layout!

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Posted by strogey on Wednesday, April 7, 2010 8:53 PM

And I thought I was doing good by having a 4'x8' layout in the living room. That is amazing! Very nice touch!

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Posted by Train Dame on Monday, April 12, 2010 1:41 PM

Hi Mel!

I really love how you incorporated the custom bridge into your layout - very awesome!  I wanted to give you a heads up about a blog Roger Farkash started: "Train of Thought" with a posting this week about the upcoming work T W/TrainWorx is doing for the York event. This past weekend, the UP844 was steaming through Texas and there are a couple of great shots of that magnificant machine.

Cheers!

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